Cygwin setup.exe hangs during install Windows 8? How should I continue?

I want to share my solution which worked. BTW, I tried all the solutions listed here and could not solve.

• Open Task Manager
• Kill any dash.exe or bash.exe
• Run Cygwin installation.
• Make sure to use default install path. Somehow changing it did not work for me.
• Get to the first stuck point
• When it is stuck at *.dash, kill dash.exe
• When it is stuck otherwise, kill bash.exe
• Then it will lead to successful setup.

https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.hang

I turned off my anti-virus software and the install proceeded through with no problems.

I had the exact same problem on my Win7 64 bits with the 64 bits installer. I successfully solved the problem by deleting the content of

c:\[cygwin_install_dir]\var\log

Which contained two files:

• setup.log
• setup.log.full

Restarted the installer and everything went well!

Hope this will help.